Francis Fukuyama | Wesson Discussion Seminar

This is the discussion seminar following the Wesson Lecture with Francis Fukuyama, "A State of Courts and Parties."
Commentators:
Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University; Research Associate at the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge University; and, since 2012, President of the Social Science Research Council. His book, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (Liveright, 2013) has been awarded the Bancroft Prize in History, the Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Political Science Association, the J. David Greenstone Prize in Politics and History, and the Sidney Hillman Prize in Book Journalism. Other recent books include Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns(Cambridge University Press, 2008; written with Andreas Kalyvas); When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (W.W. Norton, 2006), and Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2003). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Margaret Levi, a former president of the American Political Science Association, is Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Known for her research on governance, trust, legitimacy and other ways to enhance the quality of the relationship between citizens and government, Levi is also committed to understanding and ensuring that the goods we consume are produced in a manner that sustains both the workers and the environment. Her books include Of Rule and Revenue and Cooperation Without Trust? co-authored with Karen Cook and Russell Hardin. As a CASBS Fellow (Class of 1994), she worked on Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism, and co-authored Analytic Narratives with Robert Bates, Avner Greif, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry Weingast, the members of her CASBS working group. She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her PhD from Harvard University in 1974. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow. She has lectured and been a visiting fellow at universities and research institutions throughout the world. She is general editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics and co-general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. She periodically serves as a consultant to the World Bank.